Hey this is Daniel Norton, I'm here in my
studio in New York City with Mackenzie
and in this video, I'm going to talk a
little bit about kind of coming into the
studio, for people that maybe use natural
light, or used to shooting on location,
and kind of using those tools to kind of
build your studio capes, you don't just
like go out and buy a ton of equipment
when you're first start, so most people
when they start shooting, they get ...
obviously the have a camera, maybe you pick
up like these pop-up reflectors, which
are pretty useful. I've been using these
Lastolite halo compacts lately,
borrowed them from Seth...
so they fold down really small, which I
really like, and we can use these
essentially as kind of our studio tool
right? We've got we got this pop up
reflector... essentially that's going to
allow us to have it both the... both the
silver white, which he's building, and I
have a diffusive one right here. So it
does have a quarter 20, screw here in the
bottom, and I've got this Kupo 650 Pin,
you know you guys know, I love my 650
pins, and that actually has a quarter
twenty...the right here, so I can
actually attach it to a stand like that,
otherwise there's a lot of different
ways you can do it. there's different
clamps and such, but I find this to be
very convenient, and you're good to go,
and what we're essentially going to do
is take this, which you'd normally use to
diffuse you know the Sun, and we're going
to use a small flash. So we're gonna get
it you know similar results, but with
better control. So I'm gonna attach this
to my C stand here.. nice and simple, and what
we're gonna do is position this, well
where we want the light for a portrait.
So typically you know, kind of somewhat
in front, leaning down giving a good
swath of light over her, and I know that
you know a lot of times when people are
starting out, they don't have big studio
legs and stuff, so I'm going to use a
small flash for this, so I've got my
Profoto A1 over here, and I'm just
gonna move it in, so it kind of fills the
frame. So it fills the frame of the
reflector, so again we just kind of
pointed at the center, and we're gonna
do is... normally if I'm shooting in the
studio if you guys watch these videos, I
typically set my camera so none of the
available lights affecting the shots,
We'll start there, this is f/11 at 250 and
we can see it f/11 at 250 that we've
gotten no available light
affecting the shot, which is good for
us. We're gonna turn the flash on, so it's
in my a group here, so I'll turn off the
other groups even though I only have one
flash I'm in TTL, and it's gonna make a
shot, okay, and we can see f/11, 250 you
can see that's definitely like a studio
lit shot, she's lit up, I can see I get a
little creep going on here,
you want to fill the frame, so I backed
it up a little bit but it looks like I
got enough spread here that I can
actually adjust it.
let's do one more shot...
good there we go, so now we've got
nice even light on her, you know, we've
got kind of dramatic shadows, but of
course a lot of times you gonna want to
fill those shadows in, and that's where
the reflector part comes in, we've got
this one here which is again silver, and
white, so silver/white.. we'll do silver...
why not... add a little drama.
Two halos... yes...
double halo, so it's like double rainbow
but it's double halo!
Yes exactly! So we're gonna bounce the
light in, I just have this through the knuckle of the
C-Stand actually, fits in there, pretty
nicely!
Good. you know just like with
lights you want to bring your reflectors
in as close as possible, until they're in
the shot, more or less, and then just back
them out. That will make them bigger,
making them bigger, is gonna make it
softer. So see what that looks like, so it's in
slightly you guys can actually see that,
and we can see now that the reflector is
filling in nicely, you know? Essentially
giving a studio quality shot, a studio
shot from tools that you probably
already have, now the other thing you
could do is, if you didn't have two
reflectors, or two stands or whatever, and
you were in a bright space like I am
right here, you could also involve some
of the natural light so I could actually
adjust my camera right?
Because remember I'm at 11.. f/11 at 250 to
get rid of the available light.
I could drop, I mean, I could
drop my shutter speed, but I'm gonna
drop my aperture in this case, and I am in TTL,
so it will actually just adjust
automatically for me.
So I'm at 5/6
that'll let some of the daylight in, and
we can see now letting the daylight in
also is very nice.
It kind of depends on what tools you
have, and how much control you want and
we can see the difference here. We've got
mixed with daylight reflector, fill, or a
more moody shadow right? All from a
single small flash and using the tools
that you already have. If you're
basically working with natural light,
that being said, if you don't have
anything yet, I'm gonna recommend these..
They are great things to pick up, these... uh
reflector/diffusers.. are excellent
tools. So you could use them with the Sun,
you can use them with the windows to get
really refined shots, and then as you
move into a studio, you could use them as
your initial modifiers, you don't have
to invest in soft boxes and stuff, right away?
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